Category Archives: Adobe

A very good news for all AIR developer or for all people hesitating to use AIR for future applications. AIR is bundled in Acrobat Reader 9 (released yesterday), as Acrobat Reader is still one of the most downloaded software of Adobe [it is my assumption, I couldn’t find any stats :(] it will certainly help… Read More »

I’ve just read via the AXNA that Adobe, Google and Yahoo! worked together to allow SWF searchability. My first thought was ‘finally they made it’ 🙂 But while reading the FAQ I’ve been a little disappointed by how this indexation seems to happen: […]The Flash Player technology, optimized for search spiders, runs a SWF file… Read More »

Good news for me, I just passed the Adobe Certified Expert in Dreamweaver CS3 exam and achieve a not so good score of 80% in 30 minutes. After my certification in Flash CS3 two weeks ago, it is now the time for the next one 🙂 I wanted to thanks the folks at Adobe who… Read More »

I had the hand on Dreamweaver CS4 for more than one month now, I’ll share with you what really helped me in my everyday life. To shorten, for people afraid of my English: if you didn’t make the move to DW CS3 du to the lack of improvement you will be happy with DW CS4!… Read More »

I just passed my exam of Adobe Flash CS3 Certified Expert (ACE) and achieve a not so bad score of 92%… in 15 minutes (from the 90 minutes available). Exam wasn’t hard but there still was some tricky questions. Well, now it is time for the next one 🙂 Congratulations to Cédric who did as… Read More »

About a month ago, I checked the preparation guides page on Adobe.com for the ACE (Adobe Certified Expert) exam but none of the CS3 were online. Now this have changed and we can download all the preparation guides via Adobe.com. That a good news as I have scheduled a test for the ‘Adobe Flash CS3… Read More »

[via Scott Janousek’s Blog] […]Adobe Systems CEO Shantanu Narayen said the company intends to bring its Flash Player to Apple’s iPhone.[…] Whether and how Flash applications would run on Apple’s iPhone has been an open question since the device’s launch. Narayen’s comments indicate that Adobe will be able to create a version of Flash Lite… Read More »

That is a big news! The Flex Builder 3 Professional is now free for all students and edu customer: Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to all education customers. This includes all students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions. www.flexregistration.com Wondering why you finished your study so early? 🙂 Ahmet … Read More »

In an over charged world of projects management and ideas, it sometimes hard to gather the attention to the ultimate decider (your boss or yourself) to use new technologies. I started at the beginning of this week to seed (and water it  ) my boss brain with new possibilities with AIR. Some techniques worked… Read More »

Interesting online presentation by Andrew Trice about ‘Programmatic Visualizations in AIR’ with Flex. Full of nice examples, it’s already a bit old (November 2007) but you may have missed it, as I did 🙂 Access to the recorded presentation (Adobe ID is needed) Download source code Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!

Monday we had the AUGG (Adobe User Group Genève) meeting to celebrate the release of Adobe AIR and FLEX 3.0. I had a camera recorder during the meeting and I asked several questions (Why AIR? Why Flex? Why Flash? Why Not Silverlight?). The answer are funny & serious at the same time 🙂 If you… Read More »

Interesting article from Ecrans.fr where they interviewed Simon Hayhurst, director of video numeric products at Adobe, and Frédéric Massy, marketing director, about the presence of Adobe and his future. Read the translated version (originally text is in French). Here are a few interesting quotes: […]Flash is not in fact open-source for the moment, but we… Read More »

Monday 25th of February, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), already considered as a top ten technology by Technology Review (The MIT magazine) for offline web applications is send out in the Galaxy. For more information you can also read the article from the New York Times on the impact of AIR. If you didn’t started yet… Read More »